BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
The BioASQ challenge has 2 tasks: large-scale biomedical semantic indexing (join in February) and biomedical semantic QA (join in March-April).
(part of the CLEF 2015 QA track to take place in Toulouse, France, 8-11 September, 2015)
Web site: bioasq.org/
twitter: @bioasq
CLEF-QA site: nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/
The BioASQ challenge consists of two different tasks (Task 3a and Task 3b).
If you are interested in any of the following areas:
- Large-scale and hierarchical classification
- Machine learning
- Semantic Indexing, semantic similarity
then you may want to participate in BioASQ Task 3a (large-scale biomedical semantic indexing).
More information at http://bioasq.org/participate/challenges#Task3a.
If you are interested in any of the following areas:
- Question answering from unstructured and structured data
- Single and multi-document summarization
- Information retrieval and passage retrieval
- Semantic indexing, semantic similarity and reasoning
- Machine learning, classification, learning to rank
- Named-entity recognition and disambiguation
- Information extraction, fact checking, relation extraction
- Textual entailment
- Natural-language generation
then you may want to participate in BioASQ Task 3b (biomedical semantic QA).
More information at http://bioasq.org/participate/challenges#Task3b.
Important dates:
- Task 3a: You can join anytime from February 02, 2015 onwards. New data sets will be released weekly.
- Task 3b: You can join on ANY of the following dates:
- March 04, 2015
- March 18, 2015
- April 01, 2015
- April 15, 2015
- April 29, 2015
Training data for both tasks available at http://participants-area.bioasq.org/
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